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Peter Simkins

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I'm Specialized in

Front-End Design

Node.js
HTML5

Observability & Monitoring

Splunk
New Relic
DataDog
Prometheus
OTel
Grafana
01. About me

I live in the little town of Poulso on the United States West Coast, near Seattle, Washington. Very excited to be a Dad to two amazing people, Natalie & Ethan, and married to the best woman, Kelly Simkins.

02. Interests and Hobbies

Technology has always been my passion, working for some of the largest enterprise companies in the world. You can also find me outside as much as I can get out, hiking, skiing, fishing, biking, etc.

03. Framework Preferences

I have always been in operations, DevOps, SRE, Observability, focusing on the cutting edge industry solutions. "The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing." -Walt Disney

Employment

Splunk
Senior Consulting Solution Engineer, Observability
2023-present

Chronosphere
Sales Engineer
2021-2023

New Relic
Sales Engineer
2015-2021

Disney
SRE/Architect
2008-2015

Washington Mutual
SRE/Architect
2002-2006

Microsoft
Technical Support
1998-2000

Education

City University
BS Computer Science
1997-1999

Western Washington University
Plastics Engineering
1995-1997

Whatcom College
AA General Studies
1994-1995